Eyeshade



Feb. 10, 1931. BAKER 1,791,653

EYE SHADE Filed July 19, 1928 WITNEssEs: i mmvron:

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Patented Feb. 10, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE GEORGE A. BAKER, or PHILADELPHIA, r iwsxLvANIA EYESHADE Application filed July 19, 1928.' Serial no. 293,832.

An object of the invention is to provide a' 1 visor of the above character having an improved construction. The objects of my invention areto provide an eye shade havinga visor for each eye: to provide a visor which may be made of a single piece of material including the means for holding it in position; to provide an eye shade having visors for each eye connected by a bridge including a nose piece, and to provide an eye shade of material which is practically non-inflammable.

My invention consists in the eye shade hereinafter described and claimed and shown in the accompanying drawings in which,

' Figure 1 is a perspective view of the eye shade, and

Figure 2 a View showing one half of the two fold visor with the bow which connects it to the ear.

The eye shade is preferably made from a site form. belng apparent from Figure 1.

The blank is moistened, then bent to form a visor 3 for each eye, then rearwardly to pro-' vide side ieces 4 with downwardly bent parts 5 ada te to take behind the ear of the wearer. tially plain sheets of material and the planes of both are substantially perpendicular to the same plane. The visors are integrally connected by a bridge piece 6, the lower part of which is bent outwardly ,to form a nose piece 7 When dried, the shade will retain the form into which it is bent. The shade is then enameled with some non-inflammable material.

pasteboard blank of proper form, this'requiarts 4 and 5 are composed of subst'an-- The single piece shade is light, durable and non-inflammable, affords better protec tion to the eyes, and is more comfortable and convenient in use than the ordinary singlevisor shade.

It is to bemn-derstood that the above'construction may be varied'and changed within the scope of the invention as hereinbefore set forth and hereinafter claimed.

-I claim An eye shade formed of a single blank of material and cut and shaped t0 provide individual visors for each eye having the surfaces thereof diverging with an even slope down-- wardly, forwardly and laterally, side pieces v integrally formed with each of said visors and extending rearwardly therefrom, said side pieces terminating in hooks adapted to take over the ears of a wearer, said visors being connected by a bridge having its lower port on flared to conform with the shape of the nose and its upper portion flared to conform to the shape of the forehead, the edge of said upper portion of the visors forming with the upper edges of the visors a'substantially even curve for contact with the forehead of the wearer. v

In testimony whereof I have s gned my name to this specification.

GEORGE A: BAKER. so 

